One day after Núñez Feijóo described the coalition government as “shame” due to its continuous internal disputes, the spokesperson for the popular in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, once again put her finger in the wound asking the president in the control session who appoints and removes the ministers. The popular ones are determined to show throughout the entire electoral campaign that Pedro Sánchez is a weak leader, dependent on his Frankenstein alliances and incapable of putting himself in the Executive. Irene Montero, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Victoria Rosell, Pilar Llop, Yolanda Díaz are the names that Cuca Gamarra has put on the table as an example of members of the Government who question each other and put the Executive itself in trouble for its continuous clashes.
Sánchez has clung to the literalness of article 100 of the Spanish Constitution, which establishes that it is the responsibility of the Prime Minister to appoint and dismiss his ministers, that same Constitution that, he recalled, “the PP has not complied with” for four years, alluding to the blockade of the General Council of the Judiciary.
Gamarra has insisted that the Government is “decaying” and has questioned the veracity of Sánchez’s promises in relation to social housing. The popular spokesperson has settled her intervention by repeating her leader’s commitment: “We will repeal sanchismo.”
Sánchez, also reiterating, has accused the popular of settling “in noise and disqualification” despite which, “Spain advances.” The president has once again insisted that his government “manages the economy better” than the right wing and has recalled that tomorrow Congress will approve “the first housing law of democracy” with which it intends to lay the first stone of the “fifth pillar of the Welfare state”. And he has added as a warning: “What is approved in these General Courts is applied throughout Spain. They can now tell their regional presidents.”
After Gamarra, the ERC spokesman, Gabriel Rufián, has asked the President of the Government what is the assessment he makes of his management in Catalonia. Rufián has made special mention of the poor service of Rodalíes, the Catalan commuter trains. Sánchez has insisted that “the Catalonia of 2023 is better than that of 2017” and the ERC spokesman has replied by announcing that his group will present a proposal to reject the Minister of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, in Congress.
The President of the Government has defended himself by accusing Rufián of being on the electoral campaign and has tried to deny the data from the ERC spokesman, ensuring that only 6% of suburban trains in Catalonia accumulate an average delay of three minutes. His statements have aroused astonishment in the fines of the Catalan republicans.
The government control session in Congress has thus become an epilogue to the debate that yesterday faced Sánchez and Feijóo in the Senate. The same arguments, the same reproaches, the same slogans and the same electoral promises.
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